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Interactive Chess.com Views

Chess.com lookups that come back as a playable board — player ratings, a replayable last game, and the daily puzzle you can actually solve in the chat.

by nbialk ↗Games, Entertainment & FandomCommunity

LABSCO SUMMARY

Worth opening for the pattern as much as for the chess.

Three tools is a small surface, and the point is what comes back: a puzzle you play against inside the conversation rather than a FEN string you are asked to picture. If you are building an MCP app with interactive views, this is a complete working example with the deployment path documented; if you just want chess, the hosted URL works with no setup at all.

What it is

A reference example of an MCP app where each tool ships its own interactive React view instead of returning plain text. It reads Chess.com, and the results render as a board you can step through — built with Skybridge, and running in ChatGPT and Claude.

What you get

  • A player profile from a username, with rapid, blitz and bullet ratings alongside the win, loss and draw record — get-chess-player
  • That player's most recent game — result, opponent and opening — with an interactive board replay rather than a move list — get-last-game
  • The Chess.com daily puzzle as a live board: solve it move by move with feedback as you go, reveal the solution, or reset and retry — get-daily-puzzle

Requirements

Nothing, if you use the hosted copy: add https://mcp.chess.niklas.sh/mcp to any client that supports remote MCP servers — no account, no key. To run it yourself you need Node.js 24.14.1+ and pnpm 9+; pnpm install then pnpm dev serves the MCP endpoint at http://localhost:3000/mcp with a DevTools UI on the same port. The package is chess-mcp (0.4.0 in package.json). Analytics are wired as middleware but stay a no-op unless POSTHOG_API_KEY is set, so a fork sends nothing.

Setup effort

Paste a URL — add the endpoint to your client

See installation options